Religion: rereading what is bound together
Vertical binding -- Horizontal binding -- The problem of evil.
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford, California
Stanford University Press
[2022]
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Serres, Michel 1930-2019
/ Religion
/ Evil
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism |
| Further subjects: | B
Good and evil
Philosophy
B Religion Philosophy B Violence Philosophy |
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| Summary: | Vertical binding -- Horizontal binding -- The problem of evil. "With this profound final work, completed in the days leading up to his death, Michel Serres presents a vivid picture of his thinking about religion--a constant preoccupation since childhood--thereby completing Le Grand Récit, the comprehensive explanation of the world and of humanity to which he devoted the last twenty years of his life. Themes from Serres's earlier writings--energy and information, the role of the media in modern society, the anthropological function of sacrifice, the role of scientific knowledge, the problem of evil--are reinterpreted here in the light of the Old Testament accounts of Isaac and Jonah and a variety of Gospel episodes, including the Three Wise Men of the Epiphany, the Transfiguration, Peter's denying Christ, the Crucifixion, Emmaus and the Pentecost. Monotheistic religion, Serres argues, resembles mathematical abstraction in its dazzling power to bring together the real and the virtual, the natural and the transcendent; but only in its Christian embodiment is it capable of binding together human beings in such a way that partisan attachments are dissolved and a new era of history, free for once of the lethal repetition of collective violence, can be entered into"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1503628752 |